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...orthodoxy shouldn't be surprising, for two reasons. One, Rice notes in an afterword that since 1998 she has been a passionate Catholic. And two, it was Rice's profound earnestness, her unwinking commitment to the material, that brought such power to her handling of vampires (who, like Jesus, one could argue, are beings of a dual, quasi-human nature). At the time vampires were in danger of sliding into camp, and they needed her earnestness. Jesus, not quite so much...
Thomson's style in that chapter doesn't quite match that of the rest of the book. But his afterword about the novel's creation is fascinating. The idea for the work, he says, originated with Brando. But it was Cammell--a rather louche, not untalented fellow (he wrote and co-directed the cultishly admired Mick Jagger movie Performance in 1970)--who did all the heavy lifting on both treatment and novel. Thomson says Brando chatted with Cammell about the story and scratched a few notes in the margins of the evolving manuscript. That is the not entirely surprising...
...drawn from his private language of hieroglyphics. By 1934, when the artist was 41, all of Miró's signature elements were in place. By 1961, when he produced the celestial expanses of the three big Blue paintings - hanging together on one wall for the first time as an afterword to the show - Miró's world was complete, and he reveled in it for the rest of his long career. At the Louvre, there's a medieval doubleheader: First, French Primitives, Discoveries and Rediscoveries (until May 17), and then the big Paris 1400 show (March 26-July 12). "French...
...Wechsler] was the anti-Holden Caulfield, a red antithesis of J.D. Salinger’s lonely, alienated teen traveler in Manhattan,” historian Mark Solomon writes in the afterword to Wechsler’s book...
Franklin's life was short, but its epilogue has been long. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962. (Nobels are awarded only to living scientists, and Franklin died too early to share the glory.) In an uncharacteristically heartfelt afterword to The Double Helix, Watson admits that his "initial impressions of her, both scientific and personal...were often wrong." She has been the subject of two biographies, a BBC movie and numerous articles, all aimed at giving her the credit she was denied during her lifetime. In 2000, King's College christened...